The Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge (3.1) Issues

I have been working my way through the Debian Sarge mail server setup and have run into an issue. When I get to:

Now start saslauthd:

/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

I get the following:

Starting SASL Authentication Deamon: (failed).

I can't figure out why this is failing and I am not sure where to look. I have double checked that I followed the instructions and everything I have matches the instructions. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I have noticed similar issues with the above mentioned How-to. I have verified all of the conf. files mentioned in the How-to itself, and have been left at a loss. The only error is "Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: (failed)." No entry is made to the mail log (/var/log/mail.log).

That being said, I happened to enter the following in the console and SASL started no problem:

The only thing I can think of is this. Some how during the process of activation, the startup script does not make reference to the "default settings" file (/etc/default/saslauthd), thus it does not pull the needed info to properly execute.

I am happy to get SASL to start, however I am baffled as to why it did not work as expected.

I have noticed similar issues with the above mentioned How-to. I have verified all of the conf. files mentioned in the How-to itself, and have been left at a loss. The only error is "Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: (failed)." No entry is made to the mail log (/var/log/mail.log).

That being said, I happened to enter the following in the console and SASL started no problem:

I tried this as root, and the result was the same(Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: (failed).) Is there a method to produce more verbose error messages within the init.d scripts? Perhaps such would give a direction to move in.